On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 11:23 AM, Jan Dobrucki wrote: > I was thiking about connecting these technologies together, like PGP > and fingerprints. Your fingers would be the PGP key. I know all my > ideas are a liitle wild, but is it worthwile?
Again, why would you use a _public_ key technology when what you are doing doesn't need a public key approach? Keyless doorlocks are already common in American and European cars. The keys are defeatable with enough attempts, but the solution is to increase key length if this is thought to be a problem, not throw out symmetric keys in favor of asymmetric, or PK, approaches which buy nothing and are more expensive to implement. Smashing a window is still easy, so increasing key length isn't a pressing problem (key length is not the weakest link). > I think that the world > will be a very dangerous place, so I think that everyone who wants to > should have the possibility of having high security. You haven't this threw with any kind of even moderately rigorous thinking. But, hey, if people want to pay the extra money for a PGP-based lock, which buys them nothing over existing locks and existing breakable windows, cool. > I wasn't just > thinking of cars. Similar things can be done with houses, boats, > whatever. So I'm a little paranoid, and I think that everyone is > spying on me, aren't such people called perceptive? > You claimed, if I recall correctly, that you have been reading the list since 1998. I find this hard to believe. If you were reading it, you weren't paying much attention. --Tim May -- Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/ML/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns Recent interests: category theory, toposes, algebraic topology
